Word: hectically
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Rogers '18 goes so far indeed as to write a hectic letter to the editor, "War--and the Millenium," in which he asserts that "War is the raging drink of life and death, or hell and heaven, pressed by the hand of a God of Battles into a full cup." He also confides to the editor, "I am an ancient cave-man in my inmost soul. My heart is hot to drink the cup of wrath, to press the rue from the drunken bowl." But President Wilson in his message says that "If our citizens are ever to fight effectively...
...line up in front of University Hall or anywhere else to be slapped fraternally on the shoulder by their brethren in the bond. Elections will proceed much as before; small groups of men will be taken into the clubs at intervals and without ostentation; there will be no hectic social Waterloo as at Yale...